Citation

White A, Rastogi S. Fem. Psychol. 2009; 19(3): 313-327.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0959353509105622

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Through an analysis of news reports and documentary footage on the Gulabi Gang and ethnographic reports on the Mahila Aghadi, both of India, we illustrate how women who engage in violent forms of justice-seeking require us to expand social psychological concepts of retributive and restorative models of justice, women's agency, and community organizing. Our grassroots feminist analysis in an Indian context integrates: (1) feminist definitions of punishment and ethical violence; (2) research on perceptions of justice and moral convictions; and, (3) the feminist and liberatory roles that women's and poor people's movements play in the reorganization and recovery of individual and community values.